The WORST episodes of Battlefield
Every episode of Battlefield ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Battlefield!
The landmark television series 'Battlefield' is a documentary series initially relased in 1994 that explores some of the most important battles fought during the Second World War and the Vietnam War. Featuring fascinating archive footage, the programme includes a review of the political and military situation before the battle, portraits of leaders and commanders, an explanation of weapons and tactics and the story of the battle itself. Vivid graphics place the battles into the context of the war as a whole. Seasons 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 are all WW2 battles and Season 3 focuses on the Vietnam war in a special 12-part season.
#2 - The Battle for Monte Cassino
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2001
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino, was a series of four assaults made by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The ultimate objective was to break through the Winter Line, and facilitate an advance towards Rome.
#3 - The West Wall
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2001
This is the story of the construction and defense of Hitler's three-mile deep web of fortifications, pillboxes, troop shelters, and anti-tank obstacles that ran along Germany's western frontier. "The Siegfried Line," as it was nicknamed by the Allies, and the natural barrier formed by the Rhine River, were key to Germany's defense of its Western Front. The breaching of the Siegfried Line at the Battle of the West Wall, and the subsequent crossing of the Rhine barrier at Remagen, heralded the collapse of German resistance in the West.
#4 - Operation Market Garden
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2001
Operation Market Garden's objective was to create a 64 mile salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. Although the largest airborne operation of the war up to that point, Market Garden's ultimate outcome remains debated: The operation succeeded in liberating the Dutch cities of Eindhoven and Nijmegen along with many towns, and limited V-2 rocket launching sites. However, it failed to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine, with the advance being halted at the river.
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#5 - The Battle for Caen
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2001
The French city of Caen was identified by the Allies as an early goal for troops coming ashore during the D-Day invasion. Rather than quickly falling, the struggle for Caen became a bloody, grinding affair that lasted for seven weeks due to intense German resistance. While a costly struggle, the fighting around Caen pinned down German troops which facilitated Operation Cobra in late July. This saw the Allies breakout of the beachhead and move to encircle German forces in Normandy.
#6 - The Battle of Kursk
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2000
In the summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men and 6,000 tanks of the German and Soviet Armies faced each other near the Soviet city of Kursk. The ensuing battle is the largest tank battle ever fought in history. It marked the last major offensive operation of German forces in the East and combined with the Soviet victory at Stalingrad was the decisive turning point on the Eastern Front.
#7 - Air War Over Germany
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2000
The Allies, determined to take the war to Germany, launch the largest strategic bombing campaign to disrupt German war production and weaken civilian morale. The RAF and USAAF bombing campaign cost thousands of Allied lives and caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
#8 - Manchuria - The Forgotten Victory
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2000
The remarkable Soviet victory over the once mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria is one of the least known of the Second World War. This was no steam roller triumph of greater numbers and brute force, but a victory for superior weaponry, brilliant tactical use of surprise and bold command that was achieved in little more than a fortnight.
#9 - Pearl Harbor
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/1/2000
The infamous Japanese attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was one of the most significant events of World War II. Brilliantly planned and executed, it dealt a crippling blow to the US Pacific Fleet, however it failed to inflict any damage on the US aircraft carriers. Ultimately, the attack brought the US and its industrial might into the war with disastrous consequences for the Axis powers.
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#10 - Guadalcanal
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/2000
Guadalcanal was the first major land battle of the Southern Pacific campaign. The island was considered key to the defense of eastern Australia and was the first step in the "march" up the Solomon Island chain to neutralize the key Japanese base at Rabaul, open up the road to the Philippines, and ultimately to Japan itself.
#11 - The Siege of Leningrad
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/2000
The 890 day siege of the Soviet Union's second city has come to epitomise the misery, suffering and savagery of the war on the Eastern Front. The city was not finally liberated by Soviet troops until 19th January 1944 - by that time 600,000 of its citizens had starved to death and 200,000 more had perished in the fighting.
#12 - El Alamein
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2001
Covering the leaders, the equipment, and the men, as well as the battles, it covers the period from the beginning of the war in Africa until the end where the Axis is expelled. The main battle covered here is the last battle of El Alamein.
#14 - Countdown to Tet
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the events in 1967 which lead the Vietcong to plan an all out attack on South Vietnam during the Tet New Year of 1968.
#15 - The Tet Offensive
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the Tet Offensive of 1968 in great detail, especially the street battles in Saigon and Hue and the resulting near annihilation of the Vietcong.
#16 - War on the DMZ
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the battles and US Operations that raged around the DMZ in the years before 1968.
#17 - Siege at the Khe Sahn
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers in great detail the largest battle of the war around the US Marine base at Khe Sanh, including the surrounding hill battles and the many B-52 strikes.
#18 - Air War Vietnam
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the early years of the Air War with American and South Vietnamese pilots flying tandem to the beginning of the Rolling Thunder campaign.
#19 - Rolling Thunder
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the air attacks on North Vietnam by US forces during Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965-68.
#20 - Peace With Honour
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the struggle US forces have in turning the ground war over to the South Vietnamese and their effort to destroy NVA bases in Laos and Cambodia in 1970. This episode ends with the NVA's buildup before the Easter Offensive of 1972.
#21 - The Fall of Saigon
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/1/1999
Covers the Easter Offensive of 1972 and the unrestricted Christmas Bombings which leads to the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 and the end of the War for the US. This episode finishes with the battles that occurred in the two years after the US left and the resulting defeat of South Vietnam with the fall of Saigon.
#22 - The Battles for Tunisia
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2001
The campaign in Tunisia saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in North Africa. The arrival of the British 1st Army gave the Allies a six-to-one numerical advantage in troops and a fifteen-to-one superiority in tanks, guns, and aircraft. The Allied blockade in the Mediterranean also began to bite, making the beleaguered Germans short of fuel, food, and ammunition. Eventually, all German troops in Tunisia surrendered.
#23 - The Battle for North Africa
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1996
After a grim struggle that rolled back and forth across the North African desert for nearly three years, the North African campaign resulted in the first major Allied victory of the Second World War.
#25 - The Battle for Russia
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/1996
Hitler's plan for the conquest of Russia called for a classic Blitzkrieg offensive, which would be pressed ruthlessly to its conclusion within the course of a single season's campaign.